Milpitas is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 62,714 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Milpitas is the 109th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities, Milpitas isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Milpitas are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Milpitas is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Milpitas who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.51%), architecture and engineering (11.17%), and computer science and math (10.84%).

Also of interest is that Milpitas has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

The city of Milpitas is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Milpitas Information and Demographics

The population of Milpitas is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.52% of adults in Milpitas have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Milpitas in 2000 was $27,823, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,292 for a family of four. However, Milpitas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Milpitas is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Milpitas home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Milpitas is Asian, followed by White. Milpitas also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.54% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Milpitas include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Milpitas's cultural character, accounting for 47.27% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Milpitas are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Milpitas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Other Indic languages.